How do we use Cookies on our website?
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. - Analytical/performance cookies
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding
what they are looking for easily. - Functionality cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. - Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.
Without cookies enabled, we can’t guarantee that the website and your experience of it are as we intended it to be. Please find a list of the individual cookies we use in the table below:
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Persistent | 2 Years | Used to distinguish users |
| _gat | Persistent | 1 Minute | Used to throttle request rate |
| _gid | Persistent | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users |
| Cookie Notice Accepted | Persistent | 1 Month | Indicates a user has accepted the use of cookies |
Please note third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the placing of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will remain unless the cookie cache is cleared, unless otherwise indicated above.